Say Hello to Pivotal Postgres

A New Way to Bring the Power and Versatility of PostgreSQL to Your Enterprise

I’m a huge fan of jazz music. I love how the best jazz musicians evolve over the years. As a genre, jazz tends to eschew one-hit wonders. Instead, my favorite artists take me through an inspired journey of music that grows and changes with time and influences.

All of that makes PostgreSQL the Miles Davis of database technology.

PostgreSQL has matured and continues to grow market share while other flash-in-the-pan databases have come and gone. In fact, PostgreSQL is one of these transcendent open-source projects (along with Kubernetes, Spring, Knative, Kafka, and Cloud Foundry) that should be a foundational building block of your digital strategy.

To help our customers capitalize on PostgreSQL, we’re pleased to announce Pivotal Postgres: open-source PostgreSQL binaries, packaged and commercially supported by Pivotal. This offering will appeal to customers who want a strong, self-managed PostgreSQL offering independent of our Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform. (For customers keen to use platform-managed PostgreSQL along with PCF, we also have Crunchy Data and A9s).

Why the popularity? Sure, folks like lower costs and lack of vendor lock-in. But the bigger reason is simple: open source communities can innovate faster. Developers and IT leaders have been noticing.

PostgreSQL: The World’s Most Versatile Database

The killer feature for PostgreSQL is versatility.

PostgreSQL stores various “styles” of data, such as relational tables, objects, documents, key-value pairs, and graphs. In addition, PostgreSQL supports a rich selection of data types and programming languages, which allows developers to cast a wide net with one diverse database. PostgreSQL is not always a replacement for the various styles of specialized databases, but the breadth of needs it covers can markedly simplify your technology portfolio.

With PostgreSQL, developers can focus on solving business problems, rather than evaluating and choosing technologies. The breadth of workloads PostgreSQL can handle reduces the number of databases you have to manage across your app portfolio. When you find a single piece of tech that can fit many use cases, it’s an easy call.

The alternative is unattractive.

Over the last decade, we’ve seen an explosion of specialized products with narrower slices of functionality. Developers often end up sinking inordinate amounts of time into researching, learning, upgrading, and following a fragmented portfolio of technologies rather than focusing their attention on the business problems they’re trying to solve. Choice is wonderful, but as my colleague Richard Seroter would say, “The Best Digital Transformers Choose When to Choose.”

Pivotal Postgres: Self-Managed Open-Source Postgres You Can Run Anywhere

Pivotal Postgres is open source Postgres and supported by the experts at Pivotal. It is part of the Pivotal Data Suite (PDS). Here are three things to know about Pivotal Postgres:

Pivotal Postgres is 100% open source. It’s based on the source tree published at postgresql.org.

It’s supported 24/7 by the experts at Pivotal. We’ve got deep expertise supporting operational databases. Focus on your business, and let us deal with the support.

Enterprise-ready. We include open source PostgreSQL, as well as many important modules often required in large production deployments enterprises, like replication manager and the appropriate drivers.

Continue Your Open Source Journey with Pivotal

Today’s news is a long time coming. Our team has delivered commercial Postgres-based products for more than 14 years, including Greenplum, our analytical database which just had a major upgrade.. Over the years, our developers have contributed hundreds of commits to the Postgres open source community. And we have deep Postgres expertise in our sales, support, and service organizations.

I’m comforted in my belief that there is no end in sight for the forward progression of jazz, my favorite genre of music. The history of jazz shows us that the genre has never stopped evolving and growing. The same goes for PostgreSQL—the consistent evolution and improvements to this database over the decades have made me a believer.

So let us make you a believer too! We’re excited to bring the power and versatility of PostgreSQL to your operational use cases.

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About the Author

Jagdish Mirani is an enterprise software executive with extensive experience in Product Management and Product Marketing. Currently he is the Principal Product Marketing Manager for Pivotal’s in-memory data grid product called GemFire. Prior to Pivotal, Jagdish spent 10 years at Oracle in their Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence groups. More recently, Jag was at AgilOne, a startup in the predictive marketing cloud space. Prior to AgilOne, Jag was at Business Objects (now part of SAP), Actuate (now part o OpenText), and NetSuite (now part of Oracle). Jag holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Santa Clara University and an MBA from the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business.